Jungle Boy (wrestler)

Perry started his career on the independent circuit in 2015[1] under the ring name Nate Coy.[3] On November 20, 2016, Coy won the 2016 West Coast Cruiser Cup.[9] On August 17, 2018, Coy won the All Pro Wrestling Junior Heavyweight Championship, his first professional wrestling championship.[10] He later lost it to Jake Atlas on at the Bay Area Bash event on June 15, 2019.[11] In February 2019, Jungle Boy formed a tag team with fellow independent wrestler Luchasaurus, dubbed "A Boy and His Dinosaur".[12][13] In May 2019, Perry wrestled and defeated actor David Arquette at a Bar Wrestling event, in a tribute match to Perry's late father.[14]

In January 2019, Perry signed with the upstart promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW), under the Jungle Boy name.[15] He made his AEW debut at the company's inaugural event Double or Nothing on May 25, competing in the pre-show Casino Battle Royale, but he was eliminated by Jimmy Havoc.[16] The following month at Fyter Fest, Jungle Boy wrestled Jimmy Havoc, Adam Page and MJF in a four-way match, which Page won.[17] At Fight for the Fallen on July 13, Jungle Boy teamed with Luchasaurus against Angélico and Jack Evans and The Dark Order (Evil Uno and Stu Grayson) in a three-way tag team match, but The Dark Order won.[18] Soon after, Jungle Boy and Luchasaurus allied themselves with Marko Stunt, creating a new faction dubbed the "Jurassic Express". At All Out on August 31, the Jurassic Express was defeated by SoCal Uncensored (Christopher Daniels, Frankie Kazarian and Scorpio Sky) in a six-man tag team match.[19] In October, Jungle Boy and Stunt competed in a tournament to determine the inaugural AEW World Tag Team Champions, but they were eliminated by the Lucha Brothers (Pentagón Jr. and Rey Fénix).[20]

On the November 20 episode of AEW Dynamite, Jungle Boy competed in the Dynamite Dozen Battle Royale, but failed to win.[21] On the December 4 episode, Jungle Boy was challenged by AEW World Champion Chris Jericho to last 10 minutes in the ring with him,[22] which he successfully did on the December 18 episode of Dynamite.[23] On the January 15, 2020 episode of AEW Dark, Jungle Boy obtained his first victory in AEW, after the Jurassic Express defeated Strong Hearts (Cima, El Lindaman and T-Hawk).[24] On the February 19 episode of Dynamite, Jungle Boy and Luchasaurus competed in a tag team battle royal to determine the number one contenders for the AEW World Tag Team Championship, but the match was won by The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson).[25]